An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, “Ah, you’re an engineer — you’re in the wrong place.”

So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, “So, how’s it going down there in hell?”

Satan replies, “Hey, things are going great. We’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.”

God replies, “What??? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake — he should never have gotten down there; send him up here.”

Satan says, “No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I’m keeping him.”

God says, “Send him back up here or I’ll sue.”

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, “Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?”

@ Trimutius:
incorrect
given the very nature of the Job,
Lawyers are required to defend someone even if they know they are guilty
as such, lawyers commonly tell lies, half truths, and twist the truth
all of which is done with the intent to deceive the court. a blatant act of dishonesty.
as such no trained, veteran, or professional lawyer could ever step foot in heaven

meaning that the only lawyers heaven could hire
would be angels, that have studied law.
and given an angel’s penchant towards Honesty
any lawyer trained by Heaven,
or Honest enough to actually get into heaven
would be a pretty bad lawyer.

and then heaven is stupid enough to hire a million of them
what’s that old saying?
“Too many cooks, spoil the broth.”
given that hell literally has an entire wing for Lawyers, politicians, and bureaucrats
and that the majority of them are well trained Veterans of the court
The Devil has this one in the bag.

@ Frith Ra:
However, these days doctors are required to lie in some cases by law (like lying to children about their dying health state), always lying that needle shots won’t hurt when they do, and sometimes deceive patients by offering medicine that isn’t most optimal nor cheapest because the drug companies have their lunches. Then you have bureaucratic doctors who regularly sign off paper work to deny patients of insurance without actually checking their case.

Most lawyers are hated by many people so god wont have much the devil on the other hand….

I’m pretty sure being hated by people for doing your job would earn you some favors.

In any case, if we’re gonna get into the details (bearing in mind that this is a satire comic with joke comments), you guys need to remember that lawyers also defend innocent people and victims. If a bunch of folks believe you’re guilty of something, someone who knows the facts and defends your innocence is definitely a good person.
Plus, maybe a good number of lawyers still do it for the money, but I’m sure there are many who do it because they believe in justice (and don’t feel happy about defending a guilty person).

@ Brian:
as far as I know, God’s not the boss of the devil in this universe. All god-like deities are on roughly equal footing (for their own species/demographic), and they’re all run by “Upper managment”. The way the devil talked about them, they’re above God as well.

Hm yeah prety sure the devil have more lawyers then God. But realy The devil must think “oh no he will give me paperwork forever!” Waht is kind of scary. Even if you can split the paperwork so the lawyers have not mutch to do the Devil will have so many papers to singe teht he don´t come out mutch in the next Century(s) (maybe tehts the reson we dont see him so often since the medival age :P)

Or he could just happen to leave a hellfire flamethrower with unlimited hellfire fuel where Larissa stumbles upon it just as she learn that the lawyer troops of heaven has descended to make battle for Sandra’s death.

AFAI can remember Larissa doesn’t have much love over for lawyers, and if they are trying to get Sandra killed…